The First 60 Days

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Briefing for the Minister of Finance and National Revenue


The First 60 Days


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First month – Proposed briefing schedule

Week 1 suggested activities

Swearing-in ceremony for new ministers/meet the Commissioner

  • Receive transition briefing material

Welcome to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

  • Meeting with the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner
  • Office orientation and administrative decisions, including establishing staff and other logistics
  • Discuss briefing plan for the coming month
  • Welcome to the CRA – introductory briefing

Settling in

  • Email to all CRA staff from the Minister
  • Approval of biography and photograph
  • Approval of signature and letter templates
  • Finalizing office logistics
  • Other demands on Minister’s time (e.g., cabinet business, parliamentary affairs, and constituency office)

Administrative briefings

  • Taxpayer information confidentiality regime – Section 241, Income Tax Act
  • Ministerial authorities and delegations
  • Expenditure management cycle and CRA budget
  • Security briefing
  • Agency financial outlook

Transition briefings

  • Briefings on important issues

Week 2 suggested activities

  • Branch and region overviews
  • Core activities briefings
    • The filing experience
    • Benefit and credit administration
    • The compliance continuum: Helping Canadians meet their tax obligations
  • Chair of the Board of Management (briefing/arranged call)
  • Taxpayers' Ombudsperson (briefing/arranged call)
  • Meet and greet with the Agency Management Committee members
  • Agency programs and files
    • Program briefings
      • Service landscape
      • Taxpayer support, including contact centres, automatic tax filing, and Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) and CVITP Grant
      • Criminal Investigations
      • Litigation forecast
      • Charities 101
      • International taxation 101
      • Excise tax 101
      • Business Tax Incentives
      • Role of the Agency in government
      • Simplification of tax and benefits administration
    • File briefings
      • Disability benefits and credits
      • Tax debt (i.e., write-offs)
      • Tax gap
      • Single tax return for Quebec
      • Aggressive GST/HST schemes
      • Remaining pandemic compliance and collections activities
      • Collective bargaining
      • e-Invoicing

Week 3 and beyond suggested activities

  • Agency programs and files, continued
  • Government and Ministerial priorities
  • Ministerial advisory committees
    • Disability Advisory Committee
    • Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector
    • Independent Advisory Board on Eligibility for Journalism Tax Measures
  • Question Period preparation
  • Spokesperson training
  • Cabinet Affairs at the CRA – Introduction
  • Communications briefing

Preliminary list of key decisions – first 60 days

Preliminary list of key decisions – first 60 days
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Publication of the second overall federal tax gap report on Canada.ca

From 2016 to 2020, the CRA estimated different components of the federal tax gap and published seven reports. In 2022, the CRA published Canada’s first overall tax gap report, which brought together all previously published tax gap components with updated estimates and key findings up to tax year 2018.

The CRA’s tax gap program plans to publish the second overall tax gap report in 2025 (target: end of June) with updated estimates and key findings up to tax year 2022, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the federal tax gap. This report delivers on the CRA’s commitment to estimate Canada’s federal tax gap on an ongoing basis and make the information about the size of that gap publicly available.

For additional context, in 2016, the Government of Canada supported the recommendation from the Standing Committee on Finance (Recommendation 7 (PDF, 2.4 MB)). There has been sustained interest from Parliament to publish the tax gap on an ongoing basis (Senate Bills S-226, S-243, S-258). The plan to publish the next report in 2025 was discussed at the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance in October 2023 and April 2024.

 Target publication: end of June

Upcoming potential Ministerial engagements

Upcoming potential Ministerial engagements
Event name Description Date
Virtual Coffee Chats with CRA employees The Minister may wish to take the opportunity to have casual virtual coffee chats with members of the various CRA employee networks, sectors, branches, regions, or other CRA groups. Anytime, at the Minister’s convenience
In-person visits to CRA offices across the country or National Capital Region The Minister may wish to take the opportunity to visit CRA employees in local or regional buildings. Anytime, at the Minister’s convenience

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2025-09-09